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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1902
Page
3
A period miscellany discusses how to choose hats suited to face shapes with tips on viewing from all sides. It highlights chiffon picture hats and a chic white model, then shifts to beauty, diary habits, and the Emerson quote about joy. It finishes with fall millinery trends and a note on women’s lasting attractiveness into their thirties.
A collection of brief notes on women's roles and rights across Europe and America. Highlights include the German Empress as patroness of many churches, a British hunt mistress, Spain and Portugal gender dynamics, Prussian teachers’ pay, a widow wearing her husband’s crepe band, a Philadelphia bread machine invention, mothers’ congress attitudes, Lieng council’s dress rule humor, and Miss Abbie Peffer’s independent farm work and farming proficiency.
The article argues that sympathetic eyes and a calm temperament make a woman attractive beyond youth. It asserts women gain power by pleasing a man, sharing his pursuits, praising his triumphs, and sympathizing in trials. It notes older women, though less pretty, can be brighter, more interesting, and emotionally seasoned.
Fashion notes describe moire silks for fall, fine crochet lace waist, and Paine trimmed gowns. Embroidered boxes display morning glories on black satin, linen gowns in green blue pink gray with Gibson waistlines, and ribbons with raised flowers for vests and trimmings. Hair accessories feature diamonds enamel leaves and wreaths. heavy embroidery enhances light fabrics.
Househeld affairs cover bathroom chair design with white enamel finish and a mirror cabinet. A movable room screen can substitute a portable screen for sick rooms. Lace handkerchiefs are washed warm with ammonia and Castile soap, air dried flat, then lightly pressed under weight to restore shape and longevity.
Instructions from the New York Journal describe washing a nap rug with soap cakes costing ten to twelve cents each. The method uses heating soap, two buckets, a scraper, and a sponge, with careful scrubbing and edge scraping to avoid drum shape. The process is advised for skilled housework and tested by professional cleaners.
A vintage recipe snippet bundle covers Scrambled Eggs and Tomatoes, Vienna Cream, Cheese Custards, Gooseberry Catsup, Golf spice infusion, and Spice Gems. It details steps for eggs with tomatoes, gelatin dessert, cheese custards, spiced gooseberry catsup, and spiced butter sugar gem cookies with baking powder.
A Brooklyn Eagle essay argues meat is an inefficient value in warm weather and beef markets. It compares cost per edible ounce, noting fat bone and tendon waste inflate price per usable pound, while vegetables and grains deliver denser nourishment with less waste.
Superintendent Spencer of the Aquarium discusses fish temperaments comparing a tiger fish to a “lady fish” noting a pugilistic, vicious nature that contrasts with a gentle image. A tail lash and biting nose probe the barrier, illustrating misread appearances. From the New York Mail and Express.
The Penny Pictorial outlines six growth periods in humans. Birth months affect stature, with July to August births tending to taller development. Growth is rapid March to August, extremities mature by sixteen, legs between ten and seventeen, and a slow rise until thirty. Subsequent periods include a long plateau and a final decline in all measurements.
The New York press notes that sea serpents depicted as tall vertical monsters are inaccurate. It explains snakes move by horizontal lateral undulations, lie flat during locomotion, and water snakes swim like eels with side-to-side body waves.
A fisherman notices a lonely woman perched on a rock at North Berwick. He tells his companion she sits day after day knitting and never speaks to anyone. The other man insists she is not auld maid but has a husband, a gowster.
A collection of short children’s items describes a punctual Busy Gee in school and a little learner, then explains how to make a four piece cardboard clown with seven pieces. It also details an egg trick with a dry decanter and a boiled egg and ends with Teddy and Teddy helping mother with house chores.
A curious illustrated toy shows threading cardboard to move a clown figure and making a pretend face on fingers to amuse children and adults. A playful scene follows with Teddy and Freddy cleaning and mother returning, then a math joke about Mary’s broken eggs and a note on Prince Henry of Prussia’s assassination insurance policy.
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